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Legal pot is imminent in Colorado and Washington. Are they ready? (via The Christian Science Monitor) A few days from now, in January, people in Colorado will be able to walk into shops and buy marijuana – no doctor’s prescription...

Jay Dardenne, the lieutenant governor of Louisiana whose responsibilities include promoting tourism, wrote an open letter to cast of Duck Dynasty in which he offered “to use his influence among Louisiana’s growing motion picture...

News of how the fired IAC public relations director Justine Sacco learned of her new-found celebrity has come to light. On Friday, before boarding a plane to South Africa, Sacco tweeted the following: While she was in the air over the continent...

Residents in the small town of Semmes, Alabama were surprised when one of the acts in the annual Christmas parade was a group of black drag queens known as “The Prancing Elite.” The captain of the troupe, Kentrell Collins, said he...

After sparking fierce anger over a controversial tweet that mocked AIDS victims, now-former PR executive Justine Sacco apologized on Sunday for the “pain” her comments had caused. The original tweet that ignited the furor read:...

As a brand, Santa Claus has one major flaw: he is only really valuable a few weeks at the end of each year. In Finland, they’re trying to do something about this. Petri Paarnio, director of Santa Claus Licencing, the firm that holds the...

A deadly Al-Qaeda attack this month on a Yemeni defence ministry hospital was a mistake and the jihadist network is ready to pay blood money, a top jihadist commander has said. The brazen daylight attack on the defence ministry complex on...

srael’s intelligence minister called reported US wiretapping of an Israeli premier “unacceptable” as the story on Sunday rekindled calls for the release of jailed Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. “We have of late exceptional...

The libertarian leader of one of the largest online retailers in the world has decided to step into the bitcoin fray. Overstock.com’s CEO Patrick Byrne told bitcoin news site NewsBTC.com on Wednesday that the decision isn’t...

A Tampa, Fla. woman presented the man who bloodied her face, broke her nose and gave her a concussion a choice. Go to jail, or face public humiliation. Her attacker chose the latter. For eight hours, the unnamed man sat on a stool in a dunce cap...

Claire Davis, the 17-year-old Arapahoe High School senior shot by a classmate on Dec. 13 in a school shooting, has died. “Despite the best efforts of our physicians and nursing staff, and Claire’s fighting spirit, her injuries were...

A former Philadelphia Eagles cheerleader will be honored Sunday night as a “Hometown Hero” at their home game against the Chicago Bears after returning from her second tour in Afghanistan as an Army intelligence officer. 1st Lt....

The day after a federal judge handed down a ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in Utah, hundreds of marriage applicants found the single county clerk’s office that happened to be open for one hour Saturday. All left disappointed, turned...

Three women who formerly worked for a Buffalo-area state legislator made complaints of sexual harassment Thursday, accusing him of acts like dragging one to a massage parlor within two weeks of being hired, discussing his penis tattoos and...